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- 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
How To Use Franklin Delano Roosevelt In A Sentence
- Ronald Reagan is now being proposed as a replacement on the US dime or 10 cent piece for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the defeater of the Axis.
- Democrats — all but five of whom voted in favor of the bill last week — would do well to remember that in 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran as a free-trader, pledging to lower Smoot-Hawley's tariff walls. The Trade and Tax Doomsday Clocks
- In the ashes of World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's science advisor, Vannevar Bush, wrote "Science: The Endless Frontier, " a report on the state of the nation's research efforts.
- When the Depression struck in 1929, and especially after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal began trying to meliorate its effects, reformers hit a stone wall of conservatism on the high court.
- In 1940, after the Nazis had rolled over much of Europe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a Republican conservative to be his war secretary.
- The last time the paper endorsed a Democrat for the White House, the year was 1936 and the lucky endorsee was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Paper Endorses First Democrat For President In 72 Years: Obama
- In 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, much of the country was making do with Victorian bridges, horse-and-buggy roads, and improvised sanitation. Job Creation Idea No. 8: Time For A New WPA
- Hoping to deter further Japanese expansion, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered the Pacific Fleet to remain forwardly deployed at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, after its 1940 maneuvers.
- My grandfather noted that the day I was born was also the birthday of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
